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TIL that the first item ever securely purchased over the Internet was a compact disc of Sting's Ten Summoner's Tales. It sold for $12.48 plus shipping.

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ANAZ4 TIL the word for father is "mama" in most of the western Australian Aboriginal languages. The word for mother is also "papa" in a subset of these languages.
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